***Hello, everyone! This is one of those stories that I'm kinda making up as I go along, but this is one that I first came up with a few months ago but never actually did. So, here was go. Alphys and Undyne belong to Toby Fox, their son belongs to me, and let's roll!

Chapter One: Torn

Alphys was tending to her two-month-old son when she felt her phone buzz in her pocket. She assumed it was Undyne calling to check in; ever since the fish had gone back to work, she would call her wife a time or two each just to make sure things were okay. Raising an infant wasn't exactly an easy task, after all.

So, Alphys took out her phone and sat that it was actually an unfamiliar number. Before she could try to think of whose number it could've been, her son, Arrow tried to grab at whatever metal thing was making noise.

"N-no, Arrow, that's m-mine," Alphys said sternly. But any chance of her words being firm in the slightest was gone with her stutter. Still, she picked up.

"H-hello?"

"Hey, is this Undyne's wife?"

The voice was unfamiliar. It evidently belonged to a male, but who couldn't be placed.

"Y-yes... wh-who is this?"

"Mason. I'm one of Undyne's other officers at the police station. She gave me your number and told me to call you if she couldn't get to the phone to explain."

"Explain wh-what?"

"She messed up her right knee pretty badly out when we were catching some guys. Once we locked them up, me and another officer-Josh, shut up-took her to the hospital. Turns out, she tore her ACL a bit. She's in surgery now, so we're waiting for a doctor."

"O-oh my God... I-I'm coming right a-away."

Then, they both hung up. Alphys knew that a torn ACL was a pretty bad injury that took a long while to recover from. And she knew that Undyne wasn't necessarily a patient person.

She pulled up the contacts menu on her phone and tapped on Toriel's name. She sighed and waited, internally pleading for a reply through the rings. At last, there was one.

"Hello?"

"H-hya. Can you c-come over and b-babysit? N-now? It's, um, u-urgent."

"Alright. But what's the situation."

Alphys exhaled, rubbing her face.

"U-Undyne's in the h-hospital."

***I know, I know, slow chapter, but I'm working on the next one. Hopefully, there'll be more plot and less exposition. Just stick with me. Anyways, be sure to leave a review on the way out and I'll see you all in the next one! Bye!